Reporting by: Sidra Dar Claim: A store named “Thai Baby Shop” remained safe from the deadly Gul Plaza fire in Karachi. Some social media posts suggested it did not burn down because the store’s signage included religious inscriptions. Fact: A visit to the store revealed that it did not remain safe; its owner told us […]
Claim: A video shows a portion of Gul Plaza collapsing after the deadly fire on 17 January 2026. Fact: The video is unrelated and from 4 December 2025, when a fire erupted at a garment factory in the Karachi Export Processing Zone near Landhi Industrial Area. A day after a deadly fire broke out at […]
Claim: A video shows a rally held in Karachi to demand an independent Sindh nation that was met with violence from the police. Fact: The event was not a separatist protest but a Sindhi Culture Day rally that turned violent over participants refusing police directives. On 8 December 2025, an Afghan X (formerly Twitter) user […]
Claim: A viral video shows a recent terror attack on Pakistan’s security forces. Fact: The footage is not from either of the recent suicide attacks reported in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In fact, it dates back to October 2024 and shows the aftermath of an explosion near Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. On 30 November, a […]
Claim: Motorbikes have been banned in Karachi. Fact: The claim is false and was spread by a news outlet using misleading language. Mayor Murtaza Wahab announced a transition from conventional to electric bikes only in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). On 29 August 2025, Pakistani media outlet City21 posted (archive) a video showing Karachi Mayor […]
Claim: People holding passports issued from Punjab are banned from travelling via Jinnah International Airport, Karachi. Fact: The claim is false. However, the FIA has imposed additional security measures to prevent “human trafficking” and “exploitation”, as well as to stop “agent mafias” from deceiving people. On 5 November 2025, Instagram account @ebuzztoday posted (archive) a […]
Claim: The Government of Sindh has issued a “high-level security alert” for Karachi from 12 to 30 November 2025. Fact: The notification is fake. The Sindh government’s information department has denied issuing such an alert. On 12 November 2025, multiple social media posts claimed that the Government of Sindh has issued a “high-level security alert” […]
Claim: A video shows an overflowing manhole during the recent monsoon spell in Karachi. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video was shared online as early as February 2024, during heavy rainfall in the city. Following a monsoon spell in Karachi on 19 August, a video was shared on social media with the caption: […]
Claim: A video shows a recent explosion taking place in the Saddar area of Karachi. Fact: The explosion depicted in the footage took place in 2023, reportedly near Surjani Town. It does not show any recent explosion in Saddar. A Facebook user posted a video (archive) that apparently shows a recent explosion taking place in […]
Claim: A video shows a pedestrian falling into an open-faced manhole while a reporter broadcasts live from an area in Karachi during rainfall. Fact: The video is AI-generated. Visual and audio inconsistencies confirm that it does not represent a real event. A video shared online shows a female reporter standing on a street lined with […]
Claim: A video shows two men and their motorcycle being dragged under a dumper truck’s front tyres for a few hundred metres after it hit them and tried to speed away in Karachi. Fact: The video is from India, not Pakistan. The accident took place on 23 December 2024 in Agra and the dumper truck […]
Claim: Chief Minister of Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, stated that Punjab would be the first province in Pakistan to transition its mass transit system to electric vehicles. Fact: This claim is false. Sindh launched its fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) as early as January 2023 becoming the first province to introduce EVs to its mass transit […]